The English title of this dissertation, which in the outset was an integrated part of a larger intervention
study on the effects of team manager training, is: Social learning and shared practice. A mixed
method study showing the learning consequences of a training course for a community of practice
of public middle managers.
Due to the growth of the elderly population in Denmark and, simultaneously, the fact that a large
part of Danish health care workers soon face retirement, in addition to the challenge regarding the
recruitment and the holding on to employees in the public health care sector in Denmark in the
coming years, this sector is confronted with the task of creating and sustaining sought-after workplaces
and one way of doing this is by organizing the work in a efficient and attractive way for the
employees, for instance in compliance with the idea of teamwork. This entails change, education
and learning, and this dissertation investigates, in a case-study, the social learning consequences of
a training course for middle managers in the Danish health care system, and thus poses the research
question: What are the intended and unintended learning consequences of the training course
”Managing teams”?....